THEY'VE GOT YOUR EYES (2026) is a major new commission by Scottish artist Rachel Maclean, featuring the world premiere of a film created using AI models trained on her own image and artistic archive. The exhibition invites you into a vivid, uncanny world where authorship and identity begin to slip.
Drawing parallels between today’s AI boom and the Victorian era’s fascination with invention and discovery, They’ve Got Your Eyes asks us to interrogate the motivations behind the pursuit of AI and to examine how ego shapes the development of technology. Glowing sculptures dripping with slime mix science aesthetics with Celtic faerie folklore to invite us into this playful, mesmerising and unsettling world. They’ve Got Your Eyes asks us to look closely at the technologies that mirror us back and consider who is really shaping creativity in an age of machines.
Co-commissioned by FACT Liverpool and Sonica Glasgow with support from 1646, The Hague. Supported by the Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo Fund and Creative Scotland. Special thanks to Braid UK, Edinburgh EPCC, and Newcastle University NUAcT for their support.